El Salvador vs Mali: Clientelism Index

El Salvador
0.546
in 2025
Mali
0.559
in 2025
El Salvador rank
77th
Mali rank
75th

Clientelism Index over time

  • El Salvador
  • Mali
0.40.60.81183819312025

How they compare

Mali currently reports 0.559 against 0.546 in El Salvador, a difference of 0.013.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was El Salvador ahead.

El Salvador ranks 77th and Mali ranks 75th of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Clientelism Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 24,366 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Composite index measuring the extent to which politics hinge on clientelistic exchanges of targeted goods, jobs, or cash for electoral support; higher values denote more pervasive clientelism.